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Las Vegas Strip - This article is about The Las Vegas Strip area in the state of Nevada. For other uses, see Las Vegas (disambiguation).
The Las Vegas Strip (also known as The Strip) is a four-mile-long (approx. 5 km) stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard South where many of the largest hotels and casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, and in the world are located. Over the years, Las Vegas Boulevard South has been called Arrowhead Highway, Salt Lake Highway, Route 91, and Los Angeles Highway. The Strip was reportedly named by a police officer, Guy McAfee, after his hometown's Sunset Strip. The Strip runs from the Stratosphere at the northern end, to the Mandalay Bay on the southern end. Most of The Strip is in the township of Paradise in Clark County, only a tiny portion is in the City of Las Vegas. McCarran Airport sits at the southern end of The Strip along with the Welcome to Las Vegas sign. In addition to the large hotel/casino resorts, The Strip is home to smaller casinos, motels, and other attractions, such as M&M World and the Fashion Show Mall. Starting in the late 1990s, The Strip became the Major West Coast place to be to celebrate New Year's Eve. History The first hotel to be built on what is today's Strip was the El Rancho Vegas, which opened on April 3, 1941, and stood for almost 20 years before being destroyed by fire in 1960. Beginning with the opening of The Mirage in 1989, the strip changed from having many small hotels and casinos to fewer but much larger "megaresorts". These huge facilities offered many entertainment and resturant options as well as gambling. The impact of this change was the loss of many big name hotels like the Dunes and most of The Strip golf courses. It also started drawing people away from the downtown area which in turn caused other problems for the City of Las Vegas. An effort to appeal more to families, by offering more attractions geared toward children, met with only limited success. For example, the MGM Grand opened in 1993 with a "Grand Adventures" theme park, but it closed after the 2000 season. Similarly, in 2003 Treasure Island closed its video arcade and largely abandoned its previous pirate theme while adopting the new ti name. The Wet and Wild water park, located next to the Sahara hotel, shut down at the end of the 2004 season. Getting around While not on The Strip itself, the Las Vegas Monorail runs on the east side of The Strip from Tropicana Avenue to Sahara. The RTC provides both a local and express bus route on the Strip to help people travel between the various attractions. Two small light-rail services, referred to as trams, operate on the Strip. One runs between two MGM Mirage properties, Treasure Island and The Mirage. The other provides service to three Mandalay Resort Group properties: Mandalay Bay, Luxor, and Excalibur. A very popular activity for tourists is to walk The Strip. Visitors walking The Strip, or just walking between the various resorts and attractions keep the sidewalks busy around the clock. The Tropicana - Las Vegas Boulevard intersection is an example of what has been done to keep pedestrian and vehicular traffic moving safely. Based on the success at this intersection, similar projects have been build further north on The Strip at Flamingo Road and Spring Mountain Road. Major Hotels, Casinos and Resorts on The Strip Listed from north to south | Name | Rooms | Opened | Stratosphere
2000 Las Vegas Blvd. South | 1,500 | April 1996 | Sahara
2535 Las Vegas Blvd. South | 1,720 | 1952 | Circus Circus
2880 Las Vegas Blvd. South | 3,770 | October 18, 1968 | Riviera
2901 Las Vegas Blvd. South | 2,100 | 1955 | Westward Ho
| 777 | | Stardust
3000 Las Vegas Blvd. South | 2,340 | July 1958 | b>New Frontier
3120 Las Vegas Blvd. South | 1,000 | October 30, 1942 | Treasure Island (TI)
3300 Las Vegas Blvd. South | 2,900 | October 27, 1993 | The Venetian
3355 Las Vegas Blvd, South | 4,049 | May 3, 1999 | The Mirage
3400 Las Vegas Blvd. South | 3,049 | November 22, 1989 | Casino Royale
3411 Las Vegas Blvd. South | 152 | 1992 | Harrah's Las Vegas
| 2,616 | | Imperial Palace
3535 Las Vegas Blvd. South | 2,700 | | Flamingo
3555 Las Vegas Blvd. South | 3,642 | 1946 | Caesars Palace
3570 Las Vegas Blvd. South | 2,456 | 1966 | Barbary Coast
3595 Las Vegas Blvd. South | 200 | 1979 | Bellagio
3600 Las Vegas Blvd. South | 3,000 | 1998 | Bally's
3645 Las Vegas Blvd. South | 2,814 | Opened December 5, 1973 as the MGM Grand Hotel Las Vegas.
Sold in 1983 and renamed. | Paris
3655 Las Vegas Blvd. South | 1,900 | September 1, 1999 | Aladdin
3667 Las Vegas Blvd. South | 2,567 | Opened in 1963 as the Tally-Ho;
rebuilt and reopened in August 2000. Purchased by Planet Hollywood in 2004. | Monte Carlo
3770 Las Vegas Blvd. South | 3,014 | June 1996 | | Boardwalk | 654 | 1968. Rebuilt and enlarged in the 1990's. Plans being developed to remove this hotel as part of a larger project, probably before 2010. | MGM Grand
3799 Las Vegas Blvd. South | 5,044 | 1993 | New York-New York
3790 Las Vegas Blvd South | 2,024 | 1997 | Tropicana
3801 Las Vegas Blvd. South | 1,800 | 1957 | Excalibur
3850 Las Vegas Blvd. South | 4,032 | June 19, 1990 | Luxor
3900 Las Vegas Blvd. South | 4,407 | October 15, 1993 | THEhotel at Mandalay Bay
3950 Las Vegas Blvd. South | 1,120 | 2004 | Mandalay Bay
3950 Las Vegas Blvd. South | 3,700 | March, 1999 | Four Seasons
3950 Las Vegas Blvd. South | 424 | 1999
Top four floors of Mandalay Bay's main building. | Major Shopping Attractions on the Strip | Name | Details if no wiki Entry | Bonanza Gift Store
2440 Las Vegas Boulevard South | World's Largest Gift Store, Purveyors of Las Vegas Pop Culture | Fashion Show Mall
3200 Las Vegas Boulevard South | At almost 2 million square feet, this is one of the largest enclosed malls in the world. The first mall to have scheduled "snow storms' inside. The mall has 7 anchors, and elevated stage and fashion runway and the "Cloud". The "Cloud" on The Strip entrance is about 128 high and 480 feet long. During the day, the structure serves as shade for the entrance and at night is serves as a movie screen. The mall features several high end resturants, some accessible from private entrances and elevators so they can operate when the mall is closed. | Forum Shops
Las Vegas Boulevard South | Adjacent to Caesars Palace, this was the first destination mall on The Strip. It features a ceiling sky that goes through a 24 day every hour. The statues at several locations put on a show several times an hour. | Past Strip Hotels External links Sources - Yahoo! Maps listing distance from Stratosphere to Mandalay Bay.
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